How do I make a cone shape in SketchUp? (90% Easy) Apr'24

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In SketchUp, you can create a cone by Two Methods.

Method No: 1. By resizing a cylinder face

Method No: 2. By extruding a triangle along a circular path.

Method No: 1. By resizing a cylinder face

To create a cone shape from a cylinder, follow these simple steps:

With the help of the Circle tool, draw a circle.
Then use the Push or Pull tool the extrude the circle into a cylinder.
Then select the Move tool and look at this Move tool symbol <>.
Must Click a cardinal point on the top edge of the cylinder, which you can see on the left in the figure. a)
Also, the cardinal point is aligned with the red/green axis and acts you can see as a resize handle.
To find a cardinal point, hover the “Move tool” cursor around the edge of the top cylinder.
Also when the circle edge highlighting disappears, this indicates a cardinal point.
You can Move the edge to its center until it shrinks into the point of a cone exactly.
Then Click at the center to complete the cone. (as shown in Figure B)

How do I make a cone shape in SketchUp — figure. a)

Method No: 2. By extruding a triangle along a circular path.

To create a cone shape by extruding a triangle along a circular path follow these simple steps:

First of all, Draw a circle on the ground plane. You’ll find it’s easier to align your triangle with the circle’s center if you start drawing the circle from the ax’s origin.
With the Line tool (line tool symbol <>), draw a triangle that’s perpendicular to the circle. You can see the left image in figure c.
With the Select tool (Select tool Symbol <>), select the surface of the circle.
Select the Follow Me tool (Follow Me tool <>) and click the triangle face, which creates a cone almost instantaneously (as long as your computer has sufficient memory). You can see the cone on the right in the following figure.